Modeling snow crystal growth III: three-dimensional snowfakes
Mathematical Physics
2007-11-27 v1 math.MP
Probability
Abstract
We introduce a three-dimensional, computationally feasible, mesoscopic model for snow crystal growth, based on diffusion of vapor, anisotropic attachment, and a semi-liquid boundary layer. Several case studies are presented that faithfully emulate a wide variety of physical snowflakes.
Cite
@article{arxiv.0711.4020,
title = {Modeling snow crystal growth III: three-dimensional snowfakes},
author = {Janko Gravner and David Griffeath},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0711.4020},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
39 pages; 47 figures; see also http://psoup.math.wisc.edu/Snowfakes.htm